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Eric Count Stenbock (1860-1895)
Now largely forgotten by all but a few devotees, Eric Count Stenbock was at the end of 19th century London a symbol of his age — a true aristocrat in the society of Decadents — unconventional writers and artists and eccentric dandies, who were influenced by Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement and whose aim was “to exist beautifully“. They had a taste for the exotic and bizarre with wild drinking habits and a morbid preoccupation with death.
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The seven stories in the brief collection Studies of Death: Romantic Tales appeared in 1894 and reflect his unique personality. The most successful of these is The True Story of a Vampire which is often included in the collections of classic vampire stories, sometimes under the title The Sad Story of a Vampire. A melancholy, somewhat morbid story about a not at all bloodthirsty vampire.
Eric Count Stenbock was born on March 12th, in 1860 in England near Cheltenham. He was the son of a Baltic count and a Manchester textile heiress and spent most of his short life in England.
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